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

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

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.

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

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.