My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

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.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

A good artist makes imaginations real!

What is your heart worth to you? The answer is ‘everything’. Our hearts are worth the World.

The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature, " he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.