I've Been A Free Man.

I've Never Abandoned The Novel.

I Became Very Interested In The Islamic Question, And Thought I Would Try To Understand It From The Roots, Ask Very Simple Questions And Somehow Make A Narrative Of That Discovery.

It's Very Attractive To People To Be A Victim. Instead Of Having To Think Out The Whole Situation, About History And Your Group And What You Are Doing... If You Begin From The Point Of View Of Being A Victim, You've Got It Half-made. I Mean Intellectually.

How Could People Like These, Without Words To Put To Their Emotions And Passions, Manage? They Could, At Best, Only Suffer Dumbly. Their Pains And Humiliations Would Work Themselves Out In Their Characters Alone: Like Evil Spirits Possessing A Body, So That The Body Itself Might Appear Innocent Of What It Did.

If Ever You Wish To Meet Intellectual Frauds In Quantity, Go To Paris.