I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland. Everywhere else - be it Cyprus, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, it ended in a terrible bloodbath.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the lack of imagination of the old Israeli elites. It's a human story, in my view, first and foremost about a mystical communion between enemies. This is the inner story of the novel. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.