Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

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.

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.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?""In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

Form follows beauty.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

If you tell a child "Don't touch yourself there," they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position. There is no such thing as a European or an African photography. It's all the same thing.

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.