"Palestine is not a problem, but an entire way of life, a culture, a history, a people."

"Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings."

"The intellectual must be a skeptic, not a believer."

"The academic world is often complicit in the perpetuation of power structures, in the reproduction of ideologies."

"The West has a long history of misrepresenting the East, of constructing it as an exotic, irrational, and inferior other."