I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
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.
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.