Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

There are no one dimensional people.

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you?

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.