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.

Islam is a dangerous religion.

On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

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.

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.