One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

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