My novels are all ideas.

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.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

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

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

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

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

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

The most stupid religion is Islam.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.