« The dream, our secret hysteria? »

« To give death, without doubt, is the most radical way to ward off death that is known to be inevitable while ignoring the moment of its occurrence. Give it: death then ceases to be perceived as a threat, felt as a loss, a disaster, an unjust punishment. It is a gift that is given to a loved one whose suffering has become intolerable (euthanasia would be an altruistic crime) or that one agrees with oneself (suicide, and many accidents, more or less provoked, which are all camouflaged suicides). Suicide is a personal decision. I choose the moment and the modality - revolver, poison, defenestration. Death is no longer what falls on me, at its own time. In a sense I become, giving me death, stronger than her. I can believe myself is his master. »

« I hate violence and now I'm about to write a book about crime. If I hate her so much, this outburst of violence is because I dread it and try to protect me from it, like a child who, after his mother has carefully lined her bed, thinks she is safe from the nightmare. »