Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

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

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

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.