Don Juan‘s story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of ‘Don Juan.’

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

I couldn’t say who I am, I haven‘t the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.

Most older people don’t talk about the past so they won‘t have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs – much more as the huge room of an orphaned, yes, an orphaned, abandoned child.

The so-called world knows everything about Slobodan Milosevic. The so-called world knows the truth. But I don’t know the truth. But I watch. I feel. I remember. I question.

I’m Austrian, but my mother was Slovenian.

Everything is created to be annihilated.

I’m a conservative classical writer.

I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.

My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

No one can be trusted who isn’t thrilled with himself at least now and then.

You can’t be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.