A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

once a refugee, always a refugee.

Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place even away from what you would normally call home.

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.

Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of threes or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refugee in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.

The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.