Everybody comes from somewhere.

A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

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

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

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.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.