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Food is my drug of choice.
Weather creates character.
To sleep is an act of faith.
The past is a sorry country.
Desire creates its own object.
There are no inanimate objects.
Silence is the garment of light.
Porches are America's lost rooms.
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
In memory Venice is always magic.
What you desire you call into being.
The past can be tamed and controlled.
My mother was my first jealous lover.
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.