A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers.

The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox.

I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal.

As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female.

I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.