See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

I don't research anything. If I need something, I'll invent it.

I've gotta keep writing. But where's the next step, where do you go? But at my age, you start to get tired. You're not full of piss and vinegar. The vinegar's …

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead...

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.-'Abou…

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. If there's any kind of fiction better than that, I don't kno…