I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.

I am for secret, dark debates.

Words are the voice of the heart.

The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace.

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

To me, the most important thing is, what do our customers think.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.