On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

We are the hero of our own story.