Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin