But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.