I'm not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.
There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.
You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.
Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
We behave as if being alone were a problem.
I'm Austrian, but my mother was Slovenian.
I'm a conservative classical writer.
Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.
I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work.
Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.
Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims.
I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.
I am a writer and not a judge.
Everything is created to be annihilated.
