Things that make my day
Freedom, autonomy, my den, leaving it and coming back; photography; Basel, Lugano, Graubünden; empty churches and chapels, the sound of the church bells in Ticino and Italy; smiles; smiles from women; unconventional relationships with women; having a clear conscience; being empty-headed, being alive, having loyal friends; good software, good movies, fourwheelers, deserted roads, moonlit mountains; hiking for 12 hours without meeting people

Things that piss me off
Ideologies, ignorance, intolerance, political correctness; football, beer, German music, the gutter press

People who make my day
Women: gentle women, warmhearted women, cheerful women, nude women, broad-minded women, shy women, modest women, self-confident women, women who love men
Courageous thinkers: Copernicus, Bruno, Galilei, Newton, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Darwin, Freud, Einstein
Courageous writers: Shere Hite, Richard Katz, Salman Rushdie, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Thilo Sarrazin, Oriana Fallaci
Courageous politicians: Viktor Orbán, Silvio Berlusconi, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Donald Trump, Geert Wilders, Benjamin Netanyahu, Susan Collins, Václav Klaus
Courageous actors/directors: Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, Tim Allen, Susan Sarandon, Brigitte Bardot, Miloš Forman
Courageous explorer: Reinhold Messner – a survivor of unimaginable solitude and an independent thinker and philosopher
Courageous athlete: Novak Djokovic
Courageous KZ survivor: Carl Laszlo
Blackbelts: Bruce Lee, Arnold Chon, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Jeff Speakman, Gary Daniels, David Bradley, Sasha Mitchell, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Hwang In Shik (Hapkido)
Freedom defenders: Prof. Thomas Rauscher (University of Leipzig), Prof. Nils Melzer, Karl Lagerfeld, Edward Snowden – my personal hero

People who piss me off
Hypocrites, liars, prudes, followers; aggressive women, feminists; the “Me too”-crowd (starlets who ingratiate themselves with producers in order to become stars are not rape victims; they are prostitutes – but without the honor and honesty of working girls); stupid judges, spineless judges; mean rich folks; “Blick”-readers; golfers; Bill and Hillary Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, Merkel, Trudeau, the Pope; Berset (should be locked up)

My dream
The return of linguistic precision and beauty; the revival of the DUDEN of the eighties – a masterpiece of normative grammar; more self-confidence on the part of Europe and the wisdom to ignore American rules and trends

My nightmare
Being old and being with old people; being six feet under (with no wine)

Current botheration
Legal beagles who see obscenity everywhere – without realizing that what they do to people on a daily basis is the most obscene villainy of all

Current delight
My young faces, my mountains, my garden

Ceterum Censeo
Intolerant ideologies must be eradicated from the face of this planet