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

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

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

I am not faithful but I am attached.

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.