I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.