Max Frisch

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

“A joke is the shortest distance between two people.”

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”

“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”

“We can't be friends if we don't hate the same things.”

“He who has no story has no identity.”

“It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”

“A man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“The main thing is to not be dead.”

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”

“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”

“What is important is to live everything.”

“Every man invents a woman for himself.”

“If you want to say something, you have to be silent first.”

“One is never free of the past.”

“A marriage is a risky business.”