The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I have made love to ten thousand women.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.