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.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

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

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

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

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.