Do Not Cut Lose From Your Longings

Literature Belongs First And Foremost To The Language In Which It Is Being Written.

Things Can Be Translated, But They Become Different.

In The Same Way In Which Music Is Made Of Notes And A Painting Is Made Of Lines Of Colors, The Matter Of Literature Are Words.

I'm A Great Believer In Compromise. I Know It's Not Popular Among Young Idealists.

The Minute We Leave South Lebanon We Will Have To Erase The Word Hezbollah From Our Vocabulary, Because The Whole Idea Of The State Of Israel Versus Hezbollah Was Sheer Folly From The Outset. It Most Certainly No Longer Will Be Relevant When Israel Returns To Her Internationally Recognized Northern Border.