I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

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

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.

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

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.