For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Persistence and perseverance – these are the two most important characteristics a startup founder should have.

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

It's almost like we have ESPN.

One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

One law of energy is this: energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality and vibration.

I was always pretty good at designing things.