Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

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

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

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

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.