I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.