The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

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.

The Glass has Shattered but the Cross Remains

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Passion is more developed than discovered.

I used to vote Democrat.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.