Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

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 glistening benediction.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

Evil is in the face of every frat guy that ever raised a beer cup and went "whoooooo!"

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.

Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.