Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.