I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

I'm a born - again atheist.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.