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.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

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.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays