Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.