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

If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

The world is full of places to which I want to return

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

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