If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.

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.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

We ought to celebrate the sacredness of life.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs." Mr. Landowsky

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Yielding is the manner of the Way.

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.