In novel after novel you have succeeded in making East and West meet, mixing Swift with the Arabian Nights... enriching the English language with your never ending creativity,

East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet

East Mims was for blacks, west was for white, and never the twain should meet.

the story of his life, the inexhaustible, the fairy, the Arabian Nights story.

If you want to go east, don't go west

The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.