... 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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed p….

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 ….

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….

With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk h….

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise..

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so ….