"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an..." — Ernst Fischer

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

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

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.