Different musical instruments provide for different music.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

The Palestinians are not going anywhere - -they have nowhere to go. The Israeli Jews also aren't going anywhere - they have nowhere to go. But we cannot become one happy family, because we are not. So, we have to divide the house into two smaller apartments and learn how to say, "good morning" in the hall every day. Eventually, perhaps we will pop in on each other for a cup of coffee. But we need this semi-detached house, a two-family unit.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.