All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

All of my novels are democracies.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

You are never to drive like that, ” I told them. “Even if you are ever wealthy enough to own a Jaguar.

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.

Stop sketching and start building.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.