Donna Leon Quotes

"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."
- Donna Leon
(Related: Military)

"I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now."
- Donna Leon
(Related: Books, Memory, Now)

"I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not."
- Donna Leon

"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."
- Donna Leon
(Related: Nature, Work, People, Human nature)

"My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other."
- Donna Leon
(Related: Desire, Film, Greed, Motive, Murder, Profit)

"The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort."
- Donna Leon
(Related: Hope, Ending)