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?

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.

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.

What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine.

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.