'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

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

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.