The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.