For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

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.

What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.

She almost never said his name. Because it made the dreams too real. Because it made the loneliness too tangible when she woke up.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.