A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U. S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.
You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.
Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
I enjoyed breaking down my matches, because wrestling fans really like to know what I'm actually thinking, and why certain things needed to happen at a certain time.
Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness.