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.

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

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.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

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.

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.