I Believe People Are Much More Complicated

I Never Thought Of Myself As An Outsider. Because Outside Of What? You Would Have To Give Advantage To This Space Where You're Not, To Think Of It As Sovereign Because You're Not There. I Was Always In The Center Of Where I Needed To Be.

The Funny Thing Is That In Bosnia There Are No Words That Are Equivalent To Fiction And Nonfiction. From The Storytelling Point Of View, The Difference Is Artificial.

I Recognized Him Then; That Is, I Finally Comprehended What I Had Known But Had Never Been Able To Formulate: He Had Always Been Complete. He Had Finished The Work Of Becoming Himself, Long Before Any Of Us Could Even Imagine Such A Feat Was Possible.

My Books Have Been Published All Over Europe. They Read Me There, And I Want To Read Them Back. I Also Spend A Lot Of Time In Europe, Often Meeting Writers, And I'm Sick Of Apologizing For The Embarrassing Shortage Of Translations In America.

My Skin Was The Border Between The World And Me.