"الحياة قصيرة جدًا لكي نعيشها مرتين، لكن الأدب يعطينا الفرصة لأن نعيش آلاف المرات."

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're missing the best joke of all.

I don't wait for opportunities. I create them.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Fiction allows us to tell truths that are too slippery for nonfiction.