there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

This joy you feel is life.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

I wish that I was where I am.