Above all, discard the irrelevant.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.