A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.