It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?

A single conversation can change things.

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.

To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.

Happiness is a state of activity.

When someone tries to make you happy, that is a true sign of love.

The mind is the center of all attractions.

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.

That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.