I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

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.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.