If these two couldn't divorce why on earth would we expect them to get married?

I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that it be a normal state. Just like everyone else.

I suffered, I learned, I changed

Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.