“If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.”

“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from”