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

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

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

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.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

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