Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

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.

Without challenges, we fail to wonder.

May God strengthen and brighten your path.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Just go with your gut and communicate.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

Cavities are made by sugar. So if you need to dig a hole, then lay down some candy bars!

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.