The most stupid religion is Islam.

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

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.

My novels are all ideas.

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

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.