Favors Are Always For Ourselves.

All Through Graduate School, Instead Of Having A Television I Read Murder Mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

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.

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.

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.

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.