We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.