I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

Books are humanity in print.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

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.