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

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

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

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. It may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Sometimes I follow the way people who are intimately close to each other move apart. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

We all begin much much much earlier. In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.