Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, 'Faya!' That was a good day.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Invest maximum amount of time into refining your gift and become best at what you were called to do and you will be surprised how easily and quickly you will rise to the top.

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.