“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”

“Talking of politics, I would like to reiterate that Arabs are people. By that I mean they are not merely an anonymous mass of peasants with nothing worth fighting for, as the Western world sees them. On the contrary, they are people with great traditions and the highest values, for all our reluctance to assess them impartially.”

“Some are created to love, while the others - to live.”

“as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.”

“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.”

“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”