Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!