Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.

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.

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

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.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

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