If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

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.

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

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.