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

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.

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

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

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

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

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