I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

Multitasking is actually a hindrance to productivity. Focus on one thing and get it done.

I am dedicated to the preservation of my marriage's unity.

And vampires never sparkle unless they just ate a stripper.

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.

I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.