An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.