Tiananmen-Square; 30 years ago.

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

― Edward Snowden

Why did you leave Starfleet, Admiral?

Don't be so easily defined.

Es geht im Leben nicht darum zu gewinnen, sondern es geht darum herauszufinden, wer man ist.

― Carlos Pedersoli

I thought I would be understood without words.

― Vincent van Gogh

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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

― Alberto Giacometti

Horst Tappert | Fritz Wepper

Derrick, Dr. Römer und der Mann des Jahres;
inszeniert von Theodor Grädler, 1983

Na, was fragst Du warum? Wir haben es hier mit Geisteskranken zu tun.

— Stephan Derrick

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Each planet sings. We don't hear it, of course, because it's a vacuum. But when we capture things like that, it's stunning. And it transports you to things that you don't believe — and at the same time, you know. These are implanted as well, because we're coming from there.

— Vangelis

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Otto Sander | Nastassja Kinski

In weiter Ferne, so nah!; dir. by Wim Wenders in 1993

I don't give interviews, because I have to try to say things that I don't need to say. The only thing I need to do is just to make music — and that's it.

— Vangelis

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Georg Trakl, Offenbarung und Untergang;
gesprochen von Klaus Löwitsch

Und Löwitsch? Wahrscheinlich ist es diese Fremdheit im eigenen praktischen Leben, die dieser neuen Arbeit Löwitschs den Untergrund des Bedrängenden, Herzgetroffenen, Aufgehetzten gibt. Mit "Offenbarung und Untergang" hat er einen Stoff in Händen, der seiner ist. Den er erobert, indem er sich ihm unterwirft. Mit inspiriertem Übermut, mit sentimentaler Hingabe, mit einem wirklich eigenen Atemzug.

— Hans-Dieter Schütt

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Zum Glück gehört, dass man irgendwann beschließt, zufrieden zu sein.

— Klaus Löwitsch

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Horst Tappert | Ernst Schröder

Derrick, Dr. Römer und der Mann des Jahres;
inszeniert von Theodor Grädler, 1983

Wissen Sie, was die Krankheit dieser Menschen ist? Aller Menschen. Ratlosigkeit.

— Prof. Rotheim

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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

— John Steinbeck

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[Bangs; as always.]

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Τhis is only a love letter and needs no answer.

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.

― Andrew Dykstra

Vangelis, Chariots of Fire; 1997
Panathenean Stadium, Athens

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According to Bohr and Heisenberg, the universe exists as an infinite number of overlapping possibilities.

― Gregg Braden

I was never lonely in space. The loneliest people live in big cities. Being lonely is a state of mind.

— Chris Hadfield

Faber.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

― Betty Buckley

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

― Basil Rathbone

Patti Smith; ph. by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970

[Bangs; as always.]

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You are the piece of the puzzle of someone else's life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you.

― Bonnie Arbon

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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

― Henry Kravis

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Eurodance never dies.
Welcome back, Jasmin.

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Den meisten gelingt es nie, in ihr eigenes Herz vorzudringen. Und wenn doch, ist das Ergebnis oft anderes als erwartet oder wir hätten uns etwas anderes für uns gewünscht. Ich bin jedenfalls sehr dankbar dafür, dass ich dabei sein durfte, wie sie in ihr Herz vordringen. Ich weiß, dass sie ihrem Schicksal mit Mut und Tapferkeit entgegentreten. Auch in den Momenten, die selbst die Stärksten auf die Probe stellen.

— Christopher Pike

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell

Wer nicht vor der Regression gelebt hat, weiss nichts von der Süsse des Lebens.

— Peter Sloterdijk

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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

— Rebecca Solnit

Never explain, never complain.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I use the stars to find you.

You are lovely as despair.

— Odysseus Elytis