I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

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.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

God’s love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move.

She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made her sad, someone being this loyal to her.

Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.

I've done a lot of Fox shows since then - Married with Children, Living Single and a whole bunch of other Fox things.

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.