Siegfried Lenz quotes:

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.