She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

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

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.