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.

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

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.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.