...their heathen fingers understand truth and beauty.

“Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his ha…”

“It was so cold. In the monastery. Sometimes the wind came from the sea with ice…”

“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Bored…”

“So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alch…”