The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.