So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

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

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

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

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

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