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

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

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

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

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.

Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.