History takes time. History makes memory.

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

You have to know what you want to get it.

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.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.