I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you..

The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they ….

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dr….

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story..

The divine art is the story..

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills..

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants ….

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea..

God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was goo….

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

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places..

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wa….

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy our….

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

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

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betray….

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows.

I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong..

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best..

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself..