The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

I rarely find motive in bird vomit.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!