“Rainer [protagonist in the novel], 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.”
“For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.”
Elfriede Jelinek