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

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.