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

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

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

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.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

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

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.