When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

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.

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.