It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

My face is my career.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.