If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

A bird with a broken wing cannot survive nor will a man with a broken spirit endure.

In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.