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.

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 terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

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

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

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.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.