She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

All intimacies are based on differences.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.