An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

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

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

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

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.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

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