The issue is not answering questions, but leaving discussions open. Not in the sense that probably one day you are going to have an answer or you are not going to have an answer. Just live your life, do what you have to do, what you are enthusiastic about doing.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.