To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.

There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

The only thing I can worry about is my swimming pool and keeping the leaves out of my swimming pool. I can't worry about what's happened to my neighbors.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.