It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

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.

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.