77 Quotes by Sayed Kashua

As I see it, religion shouldn't interfere in a relationship.

I hate flying. The first time I flew with my wife, Najat, was the first time I'd ever flown in my life, and that was just a short flight to Turkey. I spent the whole time with my shirt pulled over my head. Then I got used to it.

When I come to the airport, they always send me with all the other Israeli Arabs to the foreign workers' line. I don't mind. I feel like I belong more with all the people from abroad and the foreign workers than in the Israelis' line.

The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.

After five years of marriage, she is still the most beautiful and attractive woman in the world.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

Like with all the Arabs, they use the 'suspect procedure' on me. I arrive four hours before the flight. They do a body search in a back room behind the curtain and then escort me onto the plane because they're afraid that on the way I might pick up a bomb from someone.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things.