The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.

His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

Path of life, path of light!

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

If more people start selling ugly produce we have a chance to crack the hunger and malnutrition problems in the U.S. (Almost 90% of us do not get enough fruits and veggies).

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.