A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

I do not see eye to eye with the camera.

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

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.