If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

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.

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

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.