The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

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

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.