Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.