Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. 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.

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

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

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

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

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.