"I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result."

"To play music well, you need to strike a balance between your head, your heart, and your stomach. And if one of the three is not there or is there in too strong a dose, you cannot use it. What better …"

"The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination."

"The United States has been a major player in the Middle East for a long time, and its policies have often been detrimental to the people of the region."

"The intellectual must be an outsider, an exile, a marginal figure."