• I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

    Leonardo Sciascia: I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.
    Leonardo Sciascia, Marcelle Padovani, James Marcus (1994). “Sicily as metaphor”, Marlboro Pr