The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.