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.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

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

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Everything human is alien to me.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!