I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

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