But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

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

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

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 and the maggots.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

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.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

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 ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

There is no country on earth which does need no revolution!

The Kingdom of God wasn't born on the Fourth of July.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.