Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.