The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

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.

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

I think my daughter actually influences my style more than having boys. I tend to dress more masculine with pants or shorts or flat boots, and she makes me want to dress more stylish, more girly.

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.