I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.