Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

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

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.