Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.