Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

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.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.