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.

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

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

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

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

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

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.