I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

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

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.