For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

Without style, there can be no identity.

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.

Education is the only solution for peace.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

I think I've always been paranoid.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.