Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.

Sometimes you really want to say "Duh, " but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

I am a melancholy type of person.

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good