No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

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

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

And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.

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