Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi created the famous Ponzi scheme. He came to US with $2.50 in his pocket and made $4.5 million. Of course he lost everything. He died at 66, completely penniless.

Like a needle getting stuck on an old record, obsessive-compulsive disorder causes you to get stuck on a particular thought or urge, like washing your hands over and over.

Filumena Marturano is a dramatic play written in 1946 in which a former prostitute tricks the wealthy shopkeeper she’s been dating for 20 years into marriage so she can get the name for the 3 children she had while she was at the brothel. Sophia Loren plays her in the 1964 movie Marriage Italian-style.

The art of cross-examination, as any art, has a measure of drama.

The story of the plaster molds.

Sensitivity, vulnerability, nurturing and nourishment are completely absent.

Munching on a cold, dry, hard crust and having a strictly professional dialogue: some people never laugh, they only make noises.