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

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.

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.

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.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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.