Life Quote by Michael Paterniti

“This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for…

— Michael Paterniti

“We all had our secrets, and maybe the most terrible of them was that we weren't exactly who we thought we were, who we…

— Michael Paterniti

“From a footnote: Writes Clifton Fadiman: "A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it…

— Michael Paterniti

“Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in a certain…

— Michael Paterniti

“In our national parlance, what's usually meant by the word "maverick" is someone who skirts the edge of sanity--or is so insane as to…

— Michael Paterniti

“In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one did you…

— Michael Paterniti

“Take your hallowed halls of Congress or the littered floor of the Stock Exchange, America is built on its pancake houses!”

— Michael Paterniti

“At first, you fall in love. You wake in the morning woozy and your twilight is lit with astral violet light. You spelunk down…

— Michael Paterniti

“After the cafes of Paris with their exquisite wines and creamy fromages, crepes and steak tartare-- screaming Adore me!-- Madrid was these store-bought hunks…

— Michael Paterniti

“Learn to listen to this silence, because it will tell you many things, unimaginable things, things of great beauty and meaning.”

— Michael Paterniti

“A story is time itself, boxed and compressed.”

— Michael Paterniti

“We continued our strolling, for that is exactly what it was: strolling. This was not something I did in real life, either. It was…

— Michael Paterniti