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

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.