I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

When I taught, all my best students were women.