It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.Collection: Laughter
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.Collection: Heart
Myth is someone else's religion.Collection: Myth
Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?Collection: Morning
Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.Collection: Fall
There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.Collection: Powerful
If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.Collection: Blood
... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.Collection: Two