-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it, damn you!

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

Clouds are just nature's stepping stones to the heavens.

Nearly all God's jewels are crystallized tears.

We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways, like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it.