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

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?

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.