He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.