Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.