“You don't go missing in a museum- you just get temporarily absorbed by the walls.”

“I don't understand you. Is this how you get girls in bed?""No." "So what's different?" "I'm not trying to get you in bed. Well...I am. But not just temporarily.”

“When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much.”

“Remember that it's only by going off the track that you get to know the country...And don't, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy's only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land.”

“Some people & somethings are put in your life temporarily just to get you on to the next lesson. Everything isn't meant to last forever.”

“You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right”