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

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.