“The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.”

“My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.”

“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

“In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.”

“The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.”

“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”

“Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms.”

“It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.”

“The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide …”

“The desert is not an island: the island is not enchanted: and the desert is no habitation for men.”