I Do Not Take Any Pleasure Whatsoever

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 Was At La Fenice Opera House Back In 1991 With Friends, And We Started Talking About A Conductor Whom None Of Us Liked. Somehow There Was An Escalation, And We Started Talking About How To Kill Him, Where To Kill Him. This Struck Me As A Good Idea For A Book.

Italians Know About Human Nature - They Understand Human Nature Perhaps Better Than Anyone Else Does. They Know That People Are Weak And Greedy And Lazy And Dishonest And They Just Try To Make The Best Of It; To Work Around It.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is The Most Liberal And Illumined Of The Nine Justices Of The U.s. Supreme Court.

I Never Know What's Going To Happen In A Novel. I Don't Have A Plan Or An Outline.