In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
• People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
• Failure too is a form of death.
• We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
• Failure too is a form of death.
• Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
• If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
• Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
• Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.