Quotes by : Amos Oz

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity....

Memory deludes me. I have just remembered something that I completely forgot after it happened. I remembered....

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally....

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful,....

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

I have written various words, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and bits of dismantled sentences, fragments....

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants.....

ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.

Sometimes Yoel had the feeling that it was not his sexual organ but his whole being that was penetrating....

Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there....