Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

Ero ferma in un limbo e volevo uscirne.

I should thank you'', she said.His lips stilled, and she felt him smile against his skin. ''For what?''''Everything, really. But mostly for being you

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are

If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

I can never find the right bras.

All thoughts emit a throw of dice