Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
My mother was my first jealous lover.
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Weather creates character.
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
In memory Venice is always magic.
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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