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.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.

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

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

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

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