Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.
I need very little reality.
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind