I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.