I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.