The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

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.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.

Your life is a piece of clay

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.