All things in Naples are arranged with as much civility as possible. - Norman Lewis

A year among the Italians had converted me to such an admiration for their humanity and culture that I realise that were I given the chance to be born again and to choose the place of my birth, Italy would be the country of my choice.

Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples.

The Italians of the South live, just as Africans do, on bread dipped in olive oil.