Laurie Colwin

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

I don't like to get in front of people.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.