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

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.