“Nowadays it's more beneficial to act like a mutt, than understand reality.”

“Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless reality. Train positive perception of the surrounding things.”

“I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.”

“Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.”

“Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that case you'll achieve a result.”

“I am such a person who rots without the mental activity.”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”

“He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Sh...”

“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”