(Murphy, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1965)
"At the beginning, it was the pun".
Lech Walesa, November 12th 1993, being Polland's president.
"If I can complete a crossword early in the morning without special trouble, I know that everything will be all right during that day".
Billy Wilder at his biography Nobody is perfect.
Seeing six Oscar statues at Wilder's United Artists office (Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills), his Austrian biographer Helmuth Karasek asks him about them. Wilder answers sarcastically:
"I don't know what to do with them. Using them for keeping my doors open would be unfaithful and putting them on a shelf over the chimney would be presumptuous. What I am really proud of, is being mentioned at New York Times crossword. Twice. Once at 17 across and the other one at 21 down".