In order to put an end to the occupation, you must make peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people. This is the real aim, this is the real task.

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

Life’s most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.