the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.

The perfect classroom is Paris.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.