The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

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.

If the gate to your precious room is always left ajar, people shall least knock before entering into your precious room!

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

We are God’s holy people.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

If you fold the sentence sure you will see the other side but for sure you will loose the beauty of original one..

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time.