You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.