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

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.