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.

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.

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

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.

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