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.

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

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

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

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.