My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.

Things can be translated, but they become different.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted to create a new and improved kind of humanity, or at least, a new and improved Jewish society, a new and improved Jewish individual human being here. The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.