I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving.

People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.