I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

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

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.