One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties...

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.