“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.”

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

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.

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.

There’s no limit on how far I would go, no boundaries, no lengths.

It doesn’t matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.