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

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

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

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

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

My novels are all ideas.