She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

Deep rivers run quiet.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.