Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.