In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

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

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

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.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.