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.

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

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

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

I heard her voice, her stories, her softness as she spoke of her family, and her iron as she spoke of me - I heard her scream, and I moved without thought.

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot, ' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

Fortune favors the prepared.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.