It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.

I stress character, character, character.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.