... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.

Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.