“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.

Every time you don’t set a boundary with someone else, you violate your own inner truth.

I’m very realistic. I know my boundaries – I know what I’m good at and what I’m not good at.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

Everyone has ocean’s to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it’s the best perch… because most of my work crosses boundaries.