I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. Its not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
People think that because they've seen your name in print, you're rich. I assume that. But all it means is that there was some intrepid interviewer who bothered to give you a call.
Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.