Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The far right is saying to us: Forget about the two-state solution, it is going to be a Jewish state from the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Recently with IS and Islamist fanaticism, it has become easy for the Israeli government to simply push the Palestinian struggle for self-determination… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
