I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Sometimes I follow the way people who are intimately close to each other move apart. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

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

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.