But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

No adultery is bloodless.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning.

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.

The day of the android has dawned.

What can I say?" I grinned. I have a magic touch when it comes to animals." Daphne snorted. "You're touched in the head is more like it.

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.