Friendless is most loneliness in the world

As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.