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.

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

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

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

I am not faithful but I am attached.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS.