I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.