Africa is on the rise..

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses..

Start small and with your own money..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms ….

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I wa….