There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

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

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

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.