The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
History develops, art stands still.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat. , Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum. ]
I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.