The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.