The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The sacred-time determines the due events.

If you don't like someone, don't shake their hand.

My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.

I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.