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

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

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

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

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.