Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

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.

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

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