Max Frisch Quotes

To write is to read one's own self

Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Everything that is human looks like a special case

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...

You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself

Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect

THANATOS AND EROS
the American for that is:
CASUAL SEX.

If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I need to know a date — I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight

My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.

Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness

Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

Do you know what you need?

What hope have you know given up ?

That a plot has no real life of its own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccessful: once and for all