The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

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.

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.