“Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.” ThinkingKnowsHappensAbleArtistEthicsAesthetics Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.” IfsKnowsStoriesLiteratureLanguageAvailableInterpretation Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.” PeopleKnowsPersonsPlayLevelsCitiesPrivilegeSoccerBillionaireBusboys Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.” PeopleKnowsHomeNumbersHalfMaking MoneyIslandsEllis Island Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.” KnowsMomentsKnow HowMeditating Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.” KnowsGivingArtI CanGiving UpDifficultyNotionDespiteNobility Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.” IfsKnowsBelieveArtStillsNotionNobilityClinging Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.” PeopleKnowsWorld Book:The Lazarus Project Source: The Lazarus Project
“We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.” KnowsWantHappensFallSkyShadowPianoCartoonDescending Book:Love and Obstacles Source: Love and Obstacles
“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.” KnowsMarriedDiedI Loved You Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?” PeopleKnowsWorldWantNeedsChildrenImportantCareLife IsAsksThis WorldDespairChosenGod LoveMy ChildrenLove LifeGod KnowsLife Or Death Author:Aleksandar Hemon
