There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

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

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

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly.