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

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.

Every intention emits a power of attraction, which brings all the forces of universe to fulfill your dreams.

I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses.

But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted I beg his pardon.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.