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

The morning I woke up and it was announced that Trump was the elected president of the United States, I wrote to Angela Merkel. I said that she - at least for me - is now the leader of the free world.

All of my novels are democracies.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

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

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.