No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

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.

Live alone if staying together seems lifeless

I asked you to marry me – and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier.

Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life

I loved scary movies growing up.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.

People in government are self-interested just like people in business.

Feeling comes before reflection.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.