I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.