No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency..

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor..

Certainly I've appreciated Angela Merkel as a partner..