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.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.