Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Peace is our gift to each other.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.