I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.

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

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.

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.

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

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

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