Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

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

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.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

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

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.