I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

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.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

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