After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.