From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.