Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.