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.

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

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

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

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.

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