To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.