Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, lik…

- Andrea Camilleri

What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all…

- Andrea Camilleri

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

- Andrea Camilleri

Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one n…

- Andrea Camilleri

Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salut…

- Andrea Camilleri

Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a…

- Andrea Camilleri

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effe…

- Andrea Camilleri

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

- Andrea Camilleri