Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
“Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.”
“It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.”