Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.