Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.