My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

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.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

There must be some kind of way out of here, ' said the joker to the thief...

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Your friend is your needs answered.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.