To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

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.

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.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.