Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

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

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

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

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.