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

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.

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

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.

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

Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!

You're never really out of politics.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?