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

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.

My novels are all ideas.

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.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

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.