I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.