Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.