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.

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

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

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

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

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