Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.