I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.