To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

I love kids. I have kids and grandkids. And I find it very, very hard doing what the law says exactly to do.

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.

People tend to be scared of what they can't see.

The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.