Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.