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

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

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

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 off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.