I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes-sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.