I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

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.

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

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.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."