Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

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.

Since emotions are merely information, there are no good or bad, right or wrong emotions.

People kill very important people to change the season in their life.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

We don't tolerate terrorism. We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.