The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

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.