It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

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.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.