Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

A bottle of wine was good company.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

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.