Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.