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

My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.