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

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.

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

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

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.