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

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

Palestinian people are in love with life.

I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.