194 Quotes by Etgar Keret

He tells them that there is a line that separates killing bugs from killing frogs, and that no matter how hard it is, that line must never be crossed.

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

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don’t have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it’s about what goes on inside your mind and soul.

An awfully beautiful story, but it isn’t mine.

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.

You don’t need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

I think that, in Hebrew, it’s like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn’t find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn’t in the brochure.