Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

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.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

Never cut loose from your longings.

Don't write about that which you don't know.