You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.