Rome's Just A City Like Anywhere Else.

Language Exists Less To Record The Actual Than To Liberate The Imagination.

If You Expect The Worst From A Person, You Can't Ever Be Disappointed... The Pessimist Takes A Sort Of Gloomy Pleasure In Observing The Depths To Which Human Behaviour Can Sink. The More Sin He Sees, The More His Belief In Original Sin Is Confirmed. Everyone Likes To Have His Deepest Convictions Confirmed; That Is One Of The Most Abiding Of Human Satisfaction.

Life Is A Wretched Gray Saturday, But It Has To Be Lived Through.

The Writer's Life Seethes Within But Not Without.

To Be Left Alone Is The Most Precious Thing One Can Ask Of The Modern World.