Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
I begin by considering an effect.
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.
I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.
But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.