I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.