Amos OzThinkers

Compromise is contrasted with capitulation in that to compromise is to try to meet the other somewhere half-way and to capitulate is what is left when the other is unwilling to do the same.

The Jew is someone who chooses to share the fate of other Jews, or who is condemned to do so.

Love is a strange mixture of two opposite things. namely the worst kind of egotism and the most perfect devotion.

Poetry is a kind of spark trapped in a piece of glass, because words are pieces of glass.

Time swallows everything, from the mighty to the meager thing.