There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
My mother was my first jealous lover...
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.