“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”

We must see what in the Israeli identity – in the Israeli – we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren’t even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

I don’t think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Life begins at eighty.

Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.

In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

The end of great beginnings is to disregard the cognisance.

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels – the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

I lift my hands in praise and all else begins to fade, for you are all that matters; lord take all of me.