Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Hot peppers are to Calabria what Sangiovese is to Tuscany.

If you deconstruct Italy, you will in the end see a grapevine, a tomato and a small boy hammering a shard of marble.

In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.