No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

We need to listen to one another.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.