“It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn’t they?”

“It’s me being me making you be you…”

“E’ la possibilità, non la garanzia, quella che mi fa andare avanti. Una specie di scomessa da parte mia. E chiamatemi pure pazzo, o sognatore o quel che vi pare, io credo che tutto sia possibile.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”

“… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.”

“… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.”

“If someday you should ever think of me and miss me, know in your heart that I’d want you to find me once again. No matter how distant in time or space… FIND ME.”

“Then, by your definition… I’m in love with you.”

“The Earth must have done some noble work; that is why you were born here and not in the ocean among the fishes and not in the sky among the birds.”

“Your poetry–it doesn’t deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you.”

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen”

“the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”

“I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.”

“I wonder if you know how special you are; I wonder if you know how precious you are; I wonder if you know how lucky I am to have you in my life; I love you so much.”