I am no longer afraid of death. A longing for death even arises. Still, I would like to be able to say before the end of the year: enough is enough. - Jean-Pierre Van Rossem

The time is not far off when a complete Herge page will cost 10 or 20 million francs.

Postmodernity is a way of life that has spread throughout post-industrial western society in Europe, North America, Japan and Australia at least since 1980. It is characterised by families getting smaller and smaller, by a sharp rise in divorce rates and fewer marriages, by more and more out-of-wedlock births, by a meteoric rise in computer and internet use, by a sharp rise in drug use, by more and more time spent on gaming, by a false sense of increasing freedom, by a rise in wealth, and so on.

I regret everything. But if I had done things differently, it would never have been as compelling.