The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

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

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.