When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not..

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it..

The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn….

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded ef….

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore..

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul..

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all..

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that ….

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise..

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility..

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world..

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon..

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anyth….

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me….

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the differen….

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle..

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings..

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is..

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to….

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience….