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

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes, recently it is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was.