Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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

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

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

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

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.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.