"Murder and assault are not lunacy; they are the logical conclusions if you live a life without an assured financial foundation."

“Just keep following my tears, and the brook will take you in.”

“Rainer , who is reading The Outsider by Camus, says he would like to put the hostility of the world behind him. Once your hope for something better is taken from you, then at last you have the present all in your hand. Then you yourself are reality. Others are extras. When Rainer contemplated san evening he says that evening is melancholy ceasefire where all life has come to and end.”

“The rules of art do not exist, because what makes art art is the fact that it obeys no rules at all.”

“Stifter tells us that people are not free, that they are slaves to the laws of Nature. So you have to commit violent deeds , actions that ordinary people would call crimes but which we define as the norm, though of course it is our norm and no that of the rest.”

“The most powerful urge known to Man is the urge to be free of manual labour. Any means that accomplishes that end is fine. Some people erroneously imagine that they have a birthright to non-manual work.”

“There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.”