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.

I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

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.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

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

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.