Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.