Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always.

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.