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.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.