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Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.