"Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti."
"The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground."
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Source: Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.
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