Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.

Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: "Yids, get out of Palestine."

I recommend the art of slow reading.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

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