I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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

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.