My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

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.

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

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.