If you control the children, you control the future.

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.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that's to win.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?