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.

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.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

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

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.