The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
“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.”
“For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.”