I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

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.

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

People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.