“I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.”

“Like a painting; you are art and I hope I can be a piece of it.”

“It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve.”

“I like living, breathing better than working…my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it’s a sort of constant euphoria.”

“كنت كلما رأيتها في لباسها الفلسطيني المليء بالمزركشات والموتيفات الحية والنوار، اعترتني رغبة في أخذ الفرشاة بجنون وتغميسها في لباسها ورسم أشكال مجنونة من ألوان فستانها”

“In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I’m really never sure of what I really believe.”

“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds”

“Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”

“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”

“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”

“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”