The triumph of vegetation is total.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

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