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

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

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.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

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.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.