Different musical instruments provide for different music..

Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlar….

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic language….

It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young m….

If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor..

"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel..

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa..

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words..

I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland….

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them..

In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give ….

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about rec….

Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent..

Recently with IS and Islamist fanaticism, it has become easy for the Israeli government to simply push the Palestinian struggle for self-determinatio….

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages..

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace..

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebre….

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thi….

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales..

I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized….

I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Eu….