Every language has influences and is an influence.

Literature is about telling stories.

I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.