Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.