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The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

Money never goes out of fashion.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

Simple people ... listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

Erika glides down into the warmth, the body-warm brook of shame, a bath in which one submerges cautiously because the water is rather dirty.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

For Erika, the most profound evidence of love is failure.

Most expensive originals have cheap imitations.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.