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

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

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.

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.