According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - nine…

- Etgar Keret

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you…

- Etgar Keret

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

- Etgar Keret

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

- Etgar Keret

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

- Etgar Keret

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

- Etgar Keret

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, alw…

- Etgar Keret

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

- Etgar Keret

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always comple…

- Etgar Keret