You never answer a question nobody does.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

We are always the same age inside.

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.

Near a war is always not very near.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

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