We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

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 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.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

She's as nutty as squirrel poo.

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.