“What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.”

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

“The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.”

“I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.

+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.”

“I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah… I live my life by Islam.”

“I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.”

“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”

“The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.”

“I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is this?”