Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.