where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.