Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.