The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.