Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.