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.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

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

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

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.