When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

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.

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

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?

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

Music is not my life. Christ is my life.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.