The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.