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

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.

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.

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

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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.