As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.