I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

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

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

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

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.