You have to gnaw the bone that’s thrown you.

Girls are funny. If they fall for you, they do what they want – their mothers be damned.

As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.

We sat on the terrace and talked as the sun slipped into the western sea and the stars filled the sky above us.

Women have been deceiving men since the Garden of Eden. They’ve had centuries of practice.

She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams.

No matter how beautiful women are, they’re always worried that they aren’t attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don’t, but even they appreciate the attention.

She exuded a raw, animal magnetism that left boys like me tongue-tied, and made men ignore their wives and crowd up close.