“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
“Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.”
“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
“I have good news and bad news. The good news is there is life (of a kind) after this life. The bad news is that Jean-Claude Villeneuve is a necrophiliac.”
“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”