poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.