Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.

In the process of looking at broken paths, we often forget the lights that illuminates that path.

I want my name to mean me.

Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.