On sorrow floats laughter.

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

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

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

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.

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

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.