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.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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

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.

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.

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.

Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something.

When you give all your power to the powers that be, you take away the powers of thee.

You should love yourself to an extent where you can't let anyone take advantage of you, no matter who they are.

Never ever give up, even, and especially, when there is no chance of winning.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.