I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not …

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who,…