I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

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.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

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

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.