Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.