When Knowledge Becomes Rigid, It Stops Living.

Because Of My Calvinistic Upbringing, I Was Trained To Think That What You Do Has To Have A Purpose.

When Knowledge Becomes Rigid, It Stops Living.

I Was Interested In Transcendence From A Very Early Age. I Was Interested In What Was Over There, What Was Behind Life. So When I Had My First Communion I Was Very Disappointed. I Had Expected Something Amazing And Surprising And Spiritual. Instead All I Got Was A Bicycle. That Wasn't What I Was After At All.

I Might Have Been Born Into A Very Literal Sense Of Chaos, But In Fact That State Is True Of All Of Us.

When, At The End Of The 1960s, I Became Interested In The Nazi Era, It Was A Taboo Subject In Germany. No One Spoke About It Anymore, No More In My House Than Anywhere Else.