The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.