While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

The divine art is the story.

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.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

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