Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

True wisdom lies in the pure roots of untouchedly souls.

Men know life too early women know life too late.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician