“If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)”
“You said you were all in.”“I am. With you, Brynne, I am, and I have been from the very start.”
“You never had to fight for me to begin with. I am yours and have been from the moment I saw you”
“I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.”
“I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.”
“You are mine, I am yours: you may be sure of this. You've been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay.”