I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.