My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.