I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Can-do" is the parent of "Have-done". No passion, no production!

To stop being a victim, you have to stop thinking like a victim.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

The more you give away, the more you get back.