I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

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.

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

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.

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.

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