Peter Bichsel

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

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

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

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.