"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

"I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books."

"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering."

"It is a quiet truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I've had dreams about tricks."

"Wisdom principle 63 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 75."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."