The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

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 only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Over 70 years after Hitler, a German chancellor, a woman, is the leader of the free world. So don't talk to me about irrevocable.