… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets ….

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task..

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpow….

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect..

Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the lack of imagina….

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves….

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to ….

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palesti….

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world..

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded..

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life"..

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a nove….

I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of personal morality than s….

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this si….

Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them..

The morning I woke up and it was announced that Trump was the elected president of the United States, I wrote to Angela Merkel. I said that she - at ….

Let me make it very clear: when I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant w….

Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry fr….

The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature..

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather….

I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Som….