“You neglect and belittle the desert.
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”

“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.”

“It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: The desert of the real itself.”