I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

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

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.