The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

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.

His lips are soft and crushing at the same time. I’m not sure what to do—is there an algorithm for kissing?

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

Donald Trump really is who he is, and I think, for example, he'll probably tweet his entire life - and that's a fact. I just hope people get over it.

I don't feel like President Trump doesn't listen to me on Russia. If he had a problem with what I'm saying, he would say something. And he hasn't.

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side