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.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

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

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

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

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.