"They strolled with me through the streets hand in hand, as is usual with Arab friends, but I was lightly uncomfortabl…"

"I could now move without effort from one world to the other as easily as I could change my clothes, but I appreciated…"

"To me it is always the people rather than the places that matter."

"This incident impressed upon me the Bedu’s indifference to human life. The man was sick and if God ordered it he woul…"

"In the deserts, however arid, I have never felt homesick for green fields and woods in spring, but now that I was in …"

"…I had learnt that the most effective way to spread a story was to tell it to one or two Arabs under a pledge of secr…"

"For untold centuries the Bedu lived in the desert; they lived there from choice.... All of them would have scorned th…"

"It is characteristic of Bedu to do things by extremes, to be either wildly generous or unbelievably mean, very patien…"

"These [RAF] airmen were my fellow countrymen, and I was proud to be of their race. I knew the essential decency which…"

"All my life I had hated machines. I could remember how bitterly at school I had resented reading the news that someon…"