You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

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

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

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

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.