Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

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.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.