If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.