Every language has influences and is an influence.

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

Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

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 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.

I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.