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.

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.

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.

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

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.