Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.