"I am resposible for my own happiness?! I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast!"
"BoJack Horseman"
Serie Netflix

"In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings: no one has yet to begin a life who will not end it.
In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even concieve it. Not every poem is finished - one poem is abandoned, another catches fire and is carried away by the wind, which may be an ending, but it is the ending of a poem without and end."
Mary Ruefle
"Madness, Rack and Honey"
Wave Books 2012

"But 'knowing is not enough'. And, of course, not knowing doesn't help much either.
This dilemma fascinates me; my own capacity for ignoring the truth while simultaneously revering it above so much else."
Hal Hartley
in "Projections. A Forum for Film Makers"
Faber and Faber Limited, London 1992

" 'Sie haben einen Plan?', sagte Sumner. 'Und Sie glauben, das hilft Ihnen?' "
Ian McGuire
aus dem Roman "Nordwasser"
mareverlag, Hamburg 2018

"Für das Herz ist das Leben einfach: Es schlägt, solange es kann."
Karl Ove Knausgard
"Sterben" Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2011

" 'Das Leben ist kein Konjunktiv, Herta.'
  'Meins schon.' "
aus der Serie "Braunschlag", ORF 2011
von David Schalko

"Schreiben ist - eintreten, ohne zu klopfen."
Marina Zwetajewa
"Im Feuer geschrieben. Ein Leben in Briefen" Suhrkamp Verlag 1996

"I get so very tired of having to talk about literature. I didn't begin writing because I wanted to sit in a room and talk about the construction of subjectivity in Wordsworth and Ashbery; I began writing because I had made friends with the dead: they had written to me, in their books, about life on earth and I wanted to write back and say yes, house, bridge, river, hair, no, maybe, never, forever."
Mary Ruefle
in "3511 Zwetajewa" v. Levin Westermann
Matthes & Seitz Verlag Berlin, 2017

"Hermeneutik ist: etwas lesen, was gar nicht drinsteht."
Thomas Kapielski
"Je dickens, destojewski!"
Suhrkamp Verlag 2014

" 'Der Idiot da', sagte sie böse und wies mit anklagendem Finger in eine Richtung, 'der Idiot sagt, ich soll vom Gras runter.'
'Ja. Auf dies Stück hier darfst du nicht.'
'Aber es ist das schönste Stück!' "
aus Fynn "Hallo Mister Gott, hier spricht Anna" Scherz Verlag 1978

"Ja. Ja, ich hab immer wieder solche Engel gehabt. Ich glaube ohne die - das ist ganz wichtig, dass Sie das erwähnen - hätte ich es vermutlich nicht geschafft."
Natascha Wodin
im Gespräch, Deutschlandfunk 14.12.2017

"Well, I remember the first time I saw you. (...) when you come galloping in town on that bay mare you used to have.
As usual, you were all mad at something or other.
Well, I watched you glide off that horse in a big flurry of skirts and hair... and that was it for me.
I still watch you. All the time. I know everything about you. How you feel. How you taste. How you smell.
Hell, Lady, I could find you in the dark."
aus "Godless"
Netflix 2017