“هذا هو سر الجاز:نغمة 'الباص' تنفلت من الأوركسترا المحنطة.الطبول تقرع رؤوس الأغنيات الغبية.البيانو يشرّح جثة الطاعة.الساكسوفون يكسر قيود النوتة الموسيقية:تزلزلي أيتها المفاصل: فنحن نعزف مقطوعة جديدة..”

“Human rights that do not apply to everyone are not human rights at all.”

“Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has several times made statements to the effect that we Europeans should not cultivate a superficial anti-Americanism. But mine isn't superficial at all.Personally I have nothing against the US itself - it's a beautiful country - it's the people who live there that are the problem.I guess you could say it's the same thing with Bavaria.”

“Angela Merkel zitiere ich ja am liebsten wörtlich, ich hab noch keine bessere Möglichkeit gefunden diese Frau zu beleidigen.”

“The relation of loving contains exactly those ordered pairs such that d loves e. This relation is presumably not reflexive on the set of all persons: some people do not love themselves. Much grief is caused by the fact that this relation is not symmetric....”

“Er war fünfzig Jahre alt bei Kriegsende und sollte noch mehr als weitere fünfzig Jahre leben. Er versuchte die Zeit zu besiegen. Er hätte fast gewonnen.”

“The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.”