"A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing."

“Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.”

“Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)”

“Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.”

“The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.”

Source : "Loved Homeland? Wait until you see its inspiration, Hatufim" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2012.

“The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.22, Granta Books

“I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.”

“There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

“There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.”