Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

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.

There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.

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

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.