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.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

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.