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

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.

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

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

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.