The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.