“Can art be completely invented? It’s a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.”

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

The Holocaust is a central event in many people’s lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

A story is not only meaning, it’s music as well.

A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

This complexity is what creates that which we all know – the World – is connected in a system of networks – and I’m not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.

There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.

We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.

Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity

There’s a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.