There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.