


One of the surprises you get when growing older is that the people you knew when you were young are young forever (Roger Ebert)

“I found in him my spring of love” (Lucréce Borgia, Joachim Bouflet)
See that, Matty? That’s can-do attitude. Now, you follow those rules, do what I say – you could be just like Nick.

In the Italian Renaissance the murder by poisoning bestowed the sophistication of a work of art. From then on resorting to the knife or firearm is like preferring a rough reproduction to original masterpiece. The sinister glamor of poison is that one of a death which arrives at destination delivered by far hand, crawling like a snake hidden in the garden of Eden.
(Adriano Prosperi)