It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.