I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

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

I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature and the laws of the Cosmos if we would from the beginning recognize its originator and upholder as being of the female sex.

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.