Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life.

By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

You Can't Live If You Can't Die

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!

Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me