Universally, Not Only In Israel, People Want

I Know One Or Two Things About Fanaticism And Death, And I Reject Them.

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

I Would Love To Leave My Children And Grandchildren A Nicer World Than The One I Am Going To Leave Them. But Bearing In Mind That I Was Born In The World Of Hitler, Mussolini And Franco, The Legacy I Leave Them Might Not Be As Terrible As The Legacy My Parents And Grandparents Left To Me.

I Would Not Waste Five Years Of My Life In Order To Send To The Israeli Readers A Simple Message Such As, "let Us Change A Policy Or Stop The Settlements," Or, "let Us Strive For Peace." This Is Not What It Is About.

If We Don't Stop Somewhere, If We Don't Accept An Unhappy Compromise, Unhappy For Both Sides, If We Don't Learn How To Unhappily Coexist And Contain Our Burned Sense Of Injustice - If We Don't Learn How To Do That, We End Up In A Doomed State.