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.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

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

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

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

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.