Over 70 years after Hitler, a German chancellor, a woman, is the leader of the free world. So don't talk to me about irrevocable.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.