Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.