It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.