Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.

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.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

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