All art is autobiographical.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

The visionary is the only realist.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust.

Calling connects with passion.

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.