People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

My novels are all ideas.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.