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Literature May Open A Third Eye In The Middle Of The Reader's Forehead.

When I Was Little, My Ambition Was To Grow Up To Be A Book. Not A Writer. People Can Be Killed Like Ants. Writers Are Not Hard To Kill Either. But Not Books: However Systematically You Try To Destroy Them, There Is Always A Chance That A Copy Will Survive And Continue To Enjoy A Shelf-life In Some Corner On An Out-of-the-way Library Somehwere In Reykjavik, Valladolid Or Vancouver.

All Of My Novels Are Democracies.

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.

The Opposite Of Compromise Is Not Integrity. The Opposite Of Compromise Is Not Idealism. The Opposite Of Compromise Is Fanaticism And Death. And Yes, I Know One Or Two Things About Fanaticism And Death, And I Reject Them. The Alternative To Fanaticism And To Death Is Not Some Miraculous Realization That Someone Has Been Wrong And He Has To Apologize. No, The Answer To Fanaticism And To Death Is Curiosity And Compromise And Concession.