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

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.