Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

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

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.