I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

If you can't be as best as you dreamed of, Least be a good man in reality.

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

Once in a while you get a moment of clarity - an inspiration - and they don't come that frequently.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.