The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall.

Wir lagen beisammen unter der Erde, eingehüllt in ihre warme Dunkelheit, uns nicht mehr fürchtend, und von der Ecke her, wo der Mann auf seiner Matratze schlief, lautlos wie ein Toter, starrten uns die gelben Augen des Hundes an, runde Scheiben zweier schwefligen Monde, die unsere Liebe belauerten.

Thus I was placed into the world without being able to see through it — because I had never come to grips with it, because I imagined it was governed by the rules of the orphanage in which I grew up. Quite unprepared, was cast into the system in which humans prey upon one another; quite unprepared, I saw myself confronted by the instincts that form them, greed, hate, fear, cunning, the thirst for power, but I was equally helpless when subjected to the feelings that make that predatory system humane: dignity, moderation, reason, and, ultimately, love.