After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.