I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.