Occupation: Author Birth: September 29, 1942
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person..
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that..
Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?.
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun..
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort..
favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people..
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military..
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state..
We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long aft….
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters..
I don't go to the movies because I don't like films..
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escala….
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court..
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James..
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 ….
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 g….
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..
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline..
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and l….
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother..