If You Live, Live Free Or Die

When A Writer Declares That His First Book Is His Best, That Is Bad. I Progress Successively From Book To Book.

I See Poetry As Spiritual Medicine.

We Have To Understand - Not Justify - What Gives Rise To This Tragedy. It's Not Because They're Looking For Beautiful Virgins In Heaven, As Orientalists Portray It. Palestinian People Are In Love With Life. If We Give Them Hope - A Political Solution - They'll Stop Killing Themselves.

I Am Not A Lover Of Israel, Of Course. I Have No Reason To Be. But I Don't Hate Jews.

The Poem Is In My Hands, And Can Run Stories Through Her Hands.