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.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

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.

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

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

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.