I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”
“As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.”