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.

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

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

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

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

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

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.