What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I don't know if this is what the IDF says to the media.

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

Hamas cannot stand free media.

I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.

By suffering comes wisdom.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

Obviously living on the road is pretty hard to stay in shape while you're gone on the road all the time having to eat out three meals a day, just being physically and mentally exhausted.

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!