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

Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

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

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.