When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.