I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.