Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker’s mind.

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them...

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused? – Experience, old people’s experience.

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best...

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: “Who am I?”

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned.

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows.

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity. I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages...