« The indiscipline of Parisians, their mania to take their car as soon as they had more than a hundred meters to go, their aggressiveness, had discouraged the municipality from seeking an effective solution to traffic problems. A proposed toll had been postponed to avoid the grumbling of a fifth of the French people before the presidential and legislative elections. Concilliant with the population from the inside, ruthless for the outside populations, such were the minimalist programs of most of the candidates. Virtually nothing about accelerated relocations, nothing about the planned end of productive work, nothing about the flight of elites into tax havens, nothing about the growing gap between the possessing minority and the impoverished majority, nothing about the failing health system, nothing about the huge flows of money passing through the stock exchanges." »

« The second function of the SF: reflection, warning (the first: wonder, the third: fundamental, philosophical, metaphysical questioning). The warning, a process developed by the very first authors, like Orwell. The metaphorical process is obviously widely used by the SF, which, in fact, shifts in time to better talk about the present. I am not indifferent to the world in which I live, it worries me, questions me, and it is of course that these questions and concerns are expressed in my novels. »