"At least if you can laugh instead of cry the troubles will either kill you or go away, and it is a bit better to die …"

"A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it."

"Use Enough Gun"

"This is a book about Africa in which I have tried to avoid most of the foolishness, personal heroism, and general exa…"

"A man and a gun and a star and a beast are still ponderable in a world of imponderables. The essence of the simple po…"

"Toa bundouki m'kubwa," I said. "The big one. Gimme the .470." The gunbearer snapped the barrels onto the elephant gun…"

"There was nobody around but me, nobody else in the world but me and a million animals and a thousand noises and the b…"

"If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make cert…"

"In order to understand Mau Mau it is first necessary to understand Africa, and the portion of Africa in which Mau Mau…"

"If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he wri…"