When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.