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

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

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

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

I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Activity clutter comes from the things we do that take up precious time and sap our energy but don’t make a meaningful difference to our personal, professional, or even company’s mission.

When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance.