“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”Norman Lewis
“A problem has arisen. Although I handed in my army rations to the cook, with the intention of living on these, nobody has taken me seriously, nor believed that any human being in his right mind and able to eat pasta would refrain from doing so.”Norman Lewis book Naples '44Naples '44
“The Italians of the South live, just as Africans do, on bread dipped in olive oil.”Norman Lewis book Naples '44Naples '44
“He proved to be one of the four thousand lawyers of Naples, ninety per cent of whom – surplus to the needs of the courts – had never practised, and who for the most part lived in extreme penury.”Norman Lewis book Naples '44Naples '44