"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."

"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."

"Nothing is harder than to accept oneself."

"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..."

"They wanted what is possible only once: the now."

"Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful."

"I know that I'm the happiest of lovers..."

"It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple"

"He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge"

"The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words"

"We nest in an accident whose precarious balance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us"

"To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us"

"Time does not change us it just unfolds us"

"Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous"

"How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person"

"Uniforms ruin every character"

"'Everything that is human looks like a special case'"

"The central problem of architecture is space. Space is essential for the individual and for the community. This is equally true for the small space (the capsule) as well as for the large space (the city)."

"Spaces that trigger emotions alter the behaviour of people. Architecture aims at influencing human behaviour by space creations. (Räume, die Empfindungen auslösen, verändern das Verhalten des Menschen. Die Verhaltensbeeinflussung des Menschen durch die gestaltete Umwelt ist eine qualitative Zielsetzung des architektonischen Entwurfs.)"

"The creation of space incorporates the debate about the dialogue between dream and reality. We must use the hidden surrealistic potential of our environment to awaken basic emotions. (Raumgebung beinhaltet die Auseinandersetzung mit dem dialogischen Verhältnis von Traum und Wirklichkeit. Wir müssen das surrealistische Potenzial ausschöpfen, welches in unserer Umwelt verborgen ist. Es lassen sich damit Basisgefühle wecken.)"

"Form - as a pattern of perception - can motivate the use of architecture. Architecture provides a complete service for its users, if function (practical purpose) coincides with use motivated by form. (Mit der Gestalt als Wahrnehmungsstruktur lässt sich der Gebrauch einer Architektur motivieren. Wenn die Funktion (der praktische Zweck) mit der (gestaltbezogenen) Motivation zum Gebrauch übereinstimmt, ist die Dienstleistung der Architektur für den Menschen komplett.)"

"Function and purpose define architecture as a practical arrangement, while form defines architecture as a manifestation of apparition. The world of appariation that we cannot exist without (Max Horkheimer), is a psychological issue related to form. (Funktion und Zweck definieren Architektur als praktisches Bauwerk, die Gestalt definiert Architektur als Erscheinungsform. Die Welt der Erscheinungen, ohne die wir nicht leben können (Max Horkheimer), ist ein gestaltpsychologisches Problem.)"

"Per definition, architecture is a service for the whole human being. As such, architecture includes a material and an immaterial aspect; it has to meet rational and irrational requirements. (Architektur versteht sich als Dienstleistung für den ganzen Menschen. Als solche hat sie eine materielle und eine immaterielle Komponente; es sind rationale und irrationale Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen.)"