“The people of this world are no longer thousands of miles away, but just down the runway.”

“We will not find security for ourselves if we are estranged from the other people of this world and alienated from them and their cultures. We will not find peace for ourselves and our children by continuing to ignore other people and by arrogantly insisting that the rest of the world must learn from us what we are willing to teach and must speak to us only in our tongue.”

“A good lawyer has a grasp of what yesterday teaches us about today and tomorrow, and knows that the real meaning of words like "freedom" and "justice" can only be found in the tapestry of history.”

“...British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.”

“But Alonso kept smiling that smile and nothing made any sense with that smile looking you in the face. 'Jim, don't tell me that, you know, brother-shit. I have been through it all. Take, you know, advice. There is only one thing and that is the kick, the Now. Nothing else counts. Get yours. Get it because, you know, no one cares and they will always put you down in the end, Jim, and the only word that counts is, you know, Now. Not that foolish brother and bopping jazz, Jim. Now. Because if it all don't go up in any, you know, twenty minutes; up, all gone; then they are going to put you down and keep you down. Now.”

“If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.”

“In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories”