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

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.