Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.