I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet open, hand in hand crackled the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman. The film promised love.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.