I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

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.

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.

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

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.