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

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.