“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”

“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”

“A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.”

“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

“A cage went in search of a bird.”

“Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.”

“Easing the passing of a dying person isn't all that wicked. She wanted to die. That can't be murder. It is impossible to accuse a doctor.”

“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

“A forest bird never wants a cage.”