Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.