[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

Get ready for the future: it is murder.

The winter has not killed usagain!

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.