I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

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

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.

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.