I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

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.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

May you find grace and courage to live life to the fullness.

You can’t get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers, but you don’t need them to be your buddies.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

When I'm thinking about going on a date with some guy or considering liking him, it really doesn't matter what they do or how that affects my career.