Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

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.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.