I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

Never mistake motive for action.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.