All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.