Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.