“Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.”

“Bring us hither your sun and your summers;
And renew our world as of yore;
You shall teach us your song's new numbers,
And things that we dreamed not before:
Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,
And a singer who sings no more.”

“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”

“Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disappointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel's milk!”

“The Arab's tent… actually consists of two separate tents. The outer tent is white and acts as a heat-reflective layer. The lower-inner tent additionally protects… by providing a blanket of moving air between the two tent layers. …this tent system also illustrates the two, most basic principles of summer cooling: reflective insulation and ventilation. …One system must supplement and reinforce the other.”

“Lying in my tent
I can hear your cry
Echoing round the mountainside
You sound lonely”

“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”

“If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it;
A chield's aman you takin' notes,
And faith he'll prent it.”

“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.”

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”