It's Kind Of A Reflex For Me

I Think That Any Authentic Feeling One Has Of Life Should Be A Feeling Of Defeat. It's A Losing Game. You're Going To Die. Civilization Is Going To End. Our Society Is In Decline, And We Should Feel Ok About It Because Roman Society Was In Decline And Before It The Assyrian One Was, And They Disappeared Off This Earth And We Will Disappear Too.

All My Writing-life People Kept Telling Me That I Should Stop Writing Short Stories And Start Writing Novels: My Agent, My Israeli Publisher, My Foreign Ones, My Bank Manager - They All Felt And Keep Feeling That I'm Doing Something Wrong Here.

I'm Not Saying That I Don't Experience People In Life As Evil, But Writing Is Not A Place Of Alienation; Writing Is The Place Where We Can Try To Be Human.

The One Who Swallows Cactuses With Spines Should Not Complain About Hemorrhoids.

I Don't Like The Expression "writer's Block" Because I Think It Presupposes That You Have A Problem With Your Plumbing. I Really Think It's The Other Way Around.