Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.