What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

My husband says spring will be early.He says this every year, And every year I disagree.He needs me, the dark side of the planetary equation.Together we make the equinox.

I thought if only we could go onand meet again, shy as strangers.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

I wear a lot of the boys jewelry - the chains as well - so it's kind of good for my style because I like wearing chunky jewelry.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

America is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks.