There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.