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

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.

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

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

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

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

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