My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.