Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.

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.

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.

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.

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

The nightingale is sovereign of song.

Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh?

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.