"I was one of the first guests at the hotel when it opened 30 years ago. Experiencing that warm, pared-back luxury with extraordinary architecture, generosity of space and supreme service… that was the beginning of my story with Aman."

"I’ve always liked gossip, gossip is fun, but whether you believe it or not is something else, and yet the w…"

"For the fortunate amongst us, the fourth danger, my friends, is comfort, the temptation to follow the easy …"

"His words mean, in short: 'Everything was given over by Thee to the Pope, and everything now rests with him…"

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"I am essentially a religious type. In my teens I gave up Catholicism, and at the same time I started writin…"

"No, no. I stop in Victoria's reign. I could not write about the woe and ruin of the terrible twentieth cent…"