I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day. — Etgar Keret Every day Copy Share Image
I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind… — Etgar Keret Born Copy Share Image
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret Hebrew Copy Share Image
If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family. — Etgar Keret Brother Copy Share Image
I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of… — Etgar Keret Believe Copy Share Image
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay.… — Etgar Keret Life Copy Share Image
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful. — Etgar Keret Becoming Copy Share Image
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. — Etgar Keret Fiction Copy Share Image
“My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears.” — Etgar Keret Marriage Copy Share Image
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines:… — Etgar Keret Army Copy Share Image
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one… — Etgar Keret Doe Copy Share Image
Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover… — Etgar Keret Circumstances Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Believe Copy Share Image
“...but I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not… — Etgar Keret Better life Copy Share Image
My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in… — Etgar Keret Achievement Copy Share Image
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one… — Etgar Keret Common Copy Share Image
When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something… — Etgar Keret Books Copy Share Image
The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go… — Etgar Keret Active Copy Share Image
“Three a.m. is prime time for the soul. Programming should start any minute, and it's hard to tell what'll be on this… — Etgar Keret Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time… — Etgar Keret Flights Copy Share Image
He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing… — Etgar Keret Air Copy Share Image
“I think she cried at my funeral. It's not that I'm conceited or anything, but I'm pretty sure. Sometimes I can actually… — Etgar Keret Cried Copy Share Image
And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing… — Etgar Keret Apartment Copy Share Image
I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true.… — Etgar Keret Commit Copy Share Image
To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have… — Etgar Keret Body Copy Share Image
“When you're having an asthma attack, you don't have any breath. When you don't have any breath, it's hard to speak. You're… — Etgar Keret Asthma Copy Share Image
“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings,… — Etgar Keret Aging Copy Share Image
As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life. — Etgar Keret Affair Copy Share Image
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak. — Etgar Keret Freak Copy Share Image
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. — Etgar Keret Complaining Copy Share Image
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. — Etgar Keret Feels Copy Share Image
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. — Etgar Keret Make sense Copy Share Image
I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets. — Etgar Keret Art Copy Share Image
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. — Etgar Keret Israel Copy Share Image
If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first. — Etgar Keret Education Copy Share Image
I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block. — Etgar Keret Block Copy Share Image
