"February 1, 2012; Al-Ittihad"

"I had a prof one time... He said, "Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so pl…"

"It seems that the modes or, better, the melodies ascribed to the modes, matter today only from the standpoi…"

"Cries are way out of place | and by the way, I forgot you yesterday | Words are said out of space | 'cause …"

"A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that …"

"A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?'…"

"When I'm asked where I want to be in five or 10 years time, I say I just want to be alive and healthy."