Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

Don't write about that which you don't know.

I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.