Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.