Violence Represents The Worst Kind Of Conformism.

When I Was Young, When I Started To Write, We Were Totally Convinced That Literature Was A Kind Of Weapon.

In General, I Think My Freedom Of Invention Is Not Limited When I Use Historical Characters.

We Must Mistrust Utopias: They Usually End In Holocausts.

Writers Are The Exorcists Of Their Own Demons.

I Couldn't Imagine Any Other Way Of Living, Outside Of Books, Outside My Work. Which Doesn't Mean I Am Not Interested In Other Things, Of Course - I Am Interested In Many Things. But The Center, The Crux, Is Always Literature.