Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spread….

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition..

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner..

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs..

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personali….

Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simp….

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater..

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India..

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures..

Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most A….

It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table..

I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water ….

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between t….

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, feature….

This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him f….

perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work co….

The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal ….

To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn d….

[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a prolife….

one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because w….

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than t….