Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

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

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

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

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

If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust - it's a horrible history. And if you look at the Palestinian world, victimized by every entity in the Middle East, they were massacred in every country. I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is this fear of genocide.