Playwrights From Switzerland

"...for no rational reason."

"A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society."

"Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others."

"Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing."

"There are moments when her voice is all he needs."

"If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I need to know a date — I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite."

"You can lose a woman when you have won her."

"The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life."

"THANATOS AND EROS the American for that is: CASUAL SEX."

"The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today"

"Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means."

"Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kamen Menschen."

"The older you get the simpler you want to make it."

"The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority."

"The horror of uncreative solitude....."

"How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses."

"You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'"

"Cause and effect are never divided between two people"

"You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely."

"It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors."

"My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself."

"Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

"Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes..."