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.

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

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

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

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.

The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go there for three years of compulsory service - then you can't help yourself of thinking about the future - speculating about it, dreading it or even being - trying to be more active to change it and improve it.