I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

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.

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.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.