I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

True love has no object. It is a state of being.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

More than one of my girlfriends tried to kill me a few times.

Living with one woman is horrific.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

Welcome to Ruler’s purgatory. It’s the special club you love to hate.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.