“ Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. Frances Mayes
“ Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, o… Frances Mayes
“ At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock… Frances Mayes
“ Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave. Frances Mayes
“ The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter. Frances Mayes
“ I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have. Frances Mayes
“ It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive? Frances Mayes
“ Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle. Frances Mayes
“ There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? Frances Mayes
“ Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings. Frances Mayes
“ I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. Frances Mayes
“ Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. Frances Mayes
“ He said he couldn't understand a world 'shameless and cruel enough to divide its people by color when color is in fact the sign of God's artistic genius. Frances Mayes
“ And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, go. Frances Mayes
