I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

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.

When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.

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.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.