I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.

Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.