I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.