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 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.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.