Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

The rest is silence.

he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

I'm addicted to chocolate. I used to snort cocoa.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.