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

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once consid….

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

Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two….

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

Trust is fine, but control is better..

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor..

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate..

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

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repuls….

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can….

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..

Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devou….

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

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

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposi….

Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is o….

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

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

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents ….

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