Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!