I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

I'm probably one of the only sawmillers in the south that never whipped one of his black hands.

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.