When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

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.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

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

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

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