It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?