I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.
Jan MorrisTo the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
Jan MorrisWherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima
Jan Morris