艺术家的职责是打破平静。

The world is beautiful, but it has a disease called man.

I believe in taking challenges head-on and not shying away from them.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

——1963年6月25日在西德市政厅柏林墙前的演说

La literatura no sirve para nada, y por eso es imprescindible.

一个好故事不能被设计出来；它必须被提炼出来。