I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?

But everybody still walked in eggshells around the two of them, trying not pick sides, though loyalties were inevitably divided.

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.