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

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

Never cut loose from your longings.

We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the meantime, enjoy life.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.