I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

My grandfather and I were very close.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

pride was i was fine simple causeto be focus of the man who loved many sources those werehis focus . i lived in falsehood likean unknown and loved him all alone

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!