Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.