Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. It may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Never cut loose from your longings.

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

We supporters of the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine are now under a fierce attack from the far right and from the far left in Israel and in Europe. If I were a paranoid, I would say that maybe the far left and the far right are coordinating a conspiracy.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.