I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

They do not love that do not show their love.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.

True gratitude can never come From the mind. It has to flow from the heart To the mind, vital and body Until everything that we have and are Is a sea of gratitude.