I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.