I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

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.

Islam is a dangerous religion.

My novels are all ideas.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

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.