Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

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