Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now. ”

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it. ”

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses. ”

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm. ”

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life. ”