We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.