It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

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

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.

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

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

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