I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.

I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.