I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

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.

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

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

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.