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

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

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.

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

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

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.