My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.