"CON UN PO' DI FORTUNA, L'ANNO PROSSIMO – MI FIDANZERO' CON UNA DI QUESTE RAGAZZE – – MA PER ORA LASCIAMI DIRE – SENZA SPERANZA NÈ INTENZIONI – SOLO PERCHÈ È NATALE – E A NATALE SI DEVE DIRE LA VERITA' – PER ME TU SEI PERFETTA – E IL MIO CUORE STRAZIATO TI AMERA' – FINCHÈ NON SARAI COSI' – – BUON NATALE"

"This shifted the centre of a truly Hellenic civilization to the east, to the Aegean, the Ionian littoral of…"

"The record of the Jews and the record of the Nephites are one."

"The history of the world is the history of a privileged few."

"Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered."

"There is no design involved. It would look tawdry down the wrong end of a beach in Torremolinos. This isn't…"

"I constantly look like a miserable bitch."