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

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

People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.

All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.

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

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.