Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

Go out of societal conformity to see and create uplifting beauty.

In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.

When God gives you some opportunities, it is almost like a process that you do not even realize what is recurring at the moment.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.