Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.