The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

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

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.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

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

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.