Trust Is Fine, But Control Is Better.

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 People Being Together ... The Sexual Act Viewed As A Whole Probably Affords Less Happiness Than A Totally Ordinary Kiss Or Often Indeed One Simple Word From The One You Love.

It Is Not Enough ... Simply To Surrender Oneself Brainlessly To Love, When It Knocks At The Door, One Must Also Calculate Because Of Later Life, Which Does Sometimes Follow.

I Think Isolation Is One Of The Greatest Problems, An Ever-growing Obstacle To Political Solidarity.

You Have Often Seen In The Cinema, Erich, Haven't You, That Between Extraordinary People Extraordinary Things Like For Example Extraordinary Love Can Arise. So We Only Have To Be Extraordinary And See What Happens.

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 Repulsive, Because It Allows Us To Escape Unpalatable Reality By Taking Shelter In The “luxuriousness” Of Personality, Losing Ourselves In The Depth Of Individual Character. The Writer's Task Is To Block This Manoeuvre, To Chase Us Off To A Point From Which We Can View The Horror With A Dispassionate Eye.