From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

Love is wiser than wisdom.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.