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. A. B. YEHOSHUA ExpandIdentityReligiousSeeTalkTerritory
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. A. B. YEHOSHUA
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. A. B. YEHOSHUA BeginningComplicateDifficultPoetProcessWrite
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 A. B. YEHOSHUA BloodBombDesperatePossiblePunishmentRevengeSuicideWeaponYourself
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. A. B. YEHOSHUA BoundaryCrossDesireExploreExpressionOurselvesPermissionPhilosophy
Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths. A. B. YEHOSHUA DeserveForeverHumanIdeologyKingdomLivePersonalityTruth
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. A. B. YEHOSHUA BoundaryCrossDesireExpressionTravel
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. A. B. YEHOSHUA BeginningLoseMyselfReligiousThinking
