Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.