[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

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.

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.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.

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

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.