The Old Testament Is Full Of Poetry,

If You Steal From One Book You Are Condemned As A Plagiarist, But If You Steal From Ten Books You Are Considered A Scholar, And If You Steal From Thirty Or Forty Books, A Distinguished Scholar.

I Don't Envy Netanyahu's Situation, Because I Think He Is In Hot Water. Obviously, This Man Has A Totally Different Sense Of Personal Morality Than Some Of Our Previous Political Leaders. What Would I Personally Like To See? I Would Like To See This Government Go Straight To Hell. And I Would Have Liked To Have Seen The Previous Government Go Straight To Hell.

There Are Certain Concepts, Which Exist In English, And Are Unthinkable, Untranslatable Into Hebrew And Vice Versa. Hebrew Has A System Of Tenses, Which Is, In A Big Way, Different From The English System Of Tenses, Probably Different Than Any European System Of Tenses, Which Means A Different Sense Of Reality, Which Means A Different Concept Of Time. So, Things Can Be Translated, But They Become Different.

Literature Belongs First And Foremost To The Language In Which It Is Being Written. The Very Same Book, Even If It Is Translated Very Accurately, Let's Say From Hebrew Into English Or From English Into Hebrew, Becomes A Different Book Because Language Is A Musical Instrument.

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.