Everybody comes from somewhere.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves.

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'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.