Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

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, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

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

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

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

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

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 complex.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

When you start living under the shadow of somebody, you lose your own personality and your own passions.

You wanted a wife but I wasstill a girl.

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

I really fight for my privacy.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.