Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

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