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

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

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

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.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.