Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.