Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
“I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.”
“I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.”