Happiness is laughing together.

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.