If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.