Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

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

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.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

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

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.