The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

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.

"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.