It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.