I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

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?

I write what I write.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.