“He was a great humorist, despairing, tolerant, with a devastating lucidity, as happy as a lark. Why has he been forgotten until now? Perhaps because he was Swiss and, as the cliché goes, you don’t expect to hear laughter burst out in Switzerland. (…)
For him, ignorance was not the biggest evil: the main thing was to get on with “opening out the brain”. Nothing has changed. Nothing to change.”
Jean-Luc Porquet, Le Canard Enchaîné, July 28, 2004