As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.

Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.

With rough hands and gentle heart, I'll seduce you. You will feel my power and surrender to desire.

Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn’t you subsist only two-sided?

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

Death comes for us all in the end.

Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything