When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

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.

This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.