My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.