The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?" They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.

Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.