And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

The breath of being is been able to share your bread.

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

Action is what will produce your desired results.

Oh, how magical it will be to have winter come every year.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

I don't lie," I lied.

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.