Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.