I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.
I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it.
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.