To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

I personally always hated Pop art.

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow.

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.