And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be be… - Anthony Burgess

If one does not wish to be dissatisfied with one’s lot at home, one ought to go where the flies and the stinks are, which means the Middle East. This is also a good way of reconciling oneself to one’s laws and police force and the probity of one’s magistrates. The really great British travellers, like Charles M. Doughty for instance, to say nothing of ‘Eothen’ Kinglake, always went East, but not too far East. When you get to Southeast Asia you find no dirt or flies but the suspicion that you are in a tropical paradise, and then you go to pieces. It is essential, when travelling, to feel that you belong to a superior civilization, and the lands of the Arabs lavishly grant opportunities to nourish this conviction....

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

…workmen who wanted (a) the white man out…,(c) sinecures