The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

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.

The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.