I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

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

One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

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

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.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.