Etgar Keret Quotes

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

Having a child changes your priorities. I am convinced, for me, it will be something very positive and give me even more motivation.

There's going to come a time when maybe I have kids and a wife.

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

Children change you. They really do.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.

A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

I always thought I'd be a father.

When you become a father, everything changes.