I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.