Rome is everybody's memory.

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.

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.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Do all hearts break the same way?

Planning a murder takes a lot of prep work.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.