I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

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

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.

Renewal of mind leads to revival of spirit and revitality of soul.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!

There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace.

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.