You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

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.

I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away

If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.

Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice...Or backyard love?

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.