Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are… — 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
I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Donald Trump basically said: One state, two states, do whatever you like. I do not think this was a serious statement of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace. — 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
