It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.