Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

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.

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

self-pity is better than none.

He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.