Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. - Karen Blixen

This strength, and love of life in them, to me seemed not only highly respectable, but glorious and bewitching.

In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: "For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana."

To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words.