Etgar Keret Quotes

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Nothing is important.

It's not about the money; it's about the content.

Things are only as important as you make them out to be.

Language is very important to me.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Story is what's most important.

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.