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

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

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

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

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