Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

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.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

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.

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