A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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.

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.

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.

God has pity on kindergarten children