Natalia Ginzburg

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

No adultery is bloodless.