All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

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

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

I recommend the art of slow reading.