I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

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

I think tone gives birth to the story.

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

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.