Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity..

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or les….

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one..

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks..

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent..

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information..

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines,….

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing..

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most….

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for i….

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die..

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind..

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America..

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human..

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain..

Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who….

Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if….

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope..

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in t….

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit..

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are..