I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.

A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.

When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.