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

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

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.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.