I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may well happen, and I say this to my Palestinian friends, that the Palestinians have in a certain way missed their hour. They had their moment when the world's public opinion was behind them, and a considerable part of the Israeli public was willing to compromise with them.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

The morning I woke up and it was announced that Trump was the elected president of the United States, I wrote to Angela Merkel. I said that she - at least for me - is now the leader of the free world.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

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