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" I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative. "

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" There's a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel's institutionalized support for Mubarak's tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut. "

" When I come to the airport, they always send me with all the other Israeli Arabs to the foreign workers' line. I don't mind. I feel like I belong more with all the people from abroad and the foreign workers than in the Israelis' line. "

" Americans are connected to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and Israel because, generally speaking, Jewish Americans were always there, and many American Jewish people connect their nationality to the Israeli one. "

" I can never get to sleep without a book. "

" For one moment, after I left Jerusalem with my family for life in Illinois, I thought that maybe there's still a chance: maybe there are still enough people in Israel who refuse to rule and oppress another nation. "

" Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don't? "

" I wanted to bring likable Arabs into the average Israeli living room. "

" After five years of marriage, she is still the most beautiful and attractive woman in the world. "

" I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers. "

" I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep. "

" Like with all the Arabs, they use the 'suspect procedure' on me. I arrive four hours before the flight. They do a body search in a back room behind the curtain and then escort me onto the plane because they're afraid that on the way I might pick up a bomb from someone. "

" Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating. "

" The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas. "

" I hate it when I have to abandon my children. I politely turn down most of the invitations I get from abroad and try to fly only when it's absolutely necessary. "

" Many Israelis are educating their kids in a very nationalist, powerful identity, since kindergarten - and the Arabs as well. "

" When there's a revolution in Egypt, you can't really get depressed about not knowing what happens after you die. When there are millions out on the streets, that's not the time to start panicking about contracting swine flu. "

" It sometimes seems that the only plan the Israeli government has for the Palestinians is for them to sit quietly while Israel does whatever takes its fancy, equipped with its army, with laws it promulgated, and with courts it established. "

" To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence. "

" Somehow, the rare trips to Tel Aviv give me the feeling that I have a career. "

" I wish I could be proud of being an Israeli citizen, but how can I do that when I'm not really recognized as a full citizen? "

" Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state. "

" I hate flying. The first time I flew with my wife, Najat, was the first time I'd ever flown in my life, and that was just a short flight to Turkey. I spent the whole time with my shirt pulled over my head. Then I got used to it. "

" Back in Israel, I would spend much effort and plenty of money on presents when I went abroad, even if it was only for two days. "

" Somehow it seems that all parents are certain that they themselves were victims of abuse in school and that they will not allow this to happen to their children. Even though children can also be the cruelest group imaginable - especially the cutest of them. "

" I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family. "

" 'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace. "

" Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else. "

" Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things. "

" As I see it, religion shouldn't interfere in a relationship. "