We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the meantime, enjoy life.

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

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

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.