The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

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.

This was never about the money... Don't you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don't get paid for making it in.

If I weren't out of my mind at this second, I would've sworn he nuzzled my temple.

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.