Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.