People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots..

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy..

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia..

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas..

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture..

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles..

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political syst….

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European coun….

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country..

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to….

I live quietly at home among my family and friends..

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while..

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate..

As a writer, I've always been interested in others..