I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

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.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.