I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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 write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

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

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.