I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

All of my novels are democracies.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

May our lifestyles be a testimony of the hope we have in Christ Jesus.

My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

To be the world No. 1 has always been a dream for me.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

Normally for work I will fly business class.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.