"I like that air of put-upponess that is so thoroughly Roman. They’re not just irritable because things don’t work."

"Courageous publishers are few and are often destroyed by the large publishing groups..."

"Undisturbed time is one of the great freedoms about living in an expatriate bubble..."

I was living with an Italian journalist. We met in the States when I was in New York and shortly afterwards we moved in together.