It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.