A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'