Max Frisch - Montauk (1976)

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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

Max Frisch

The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

Max Frisch

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 succeed in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.

Max Frisch

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Max Frisch

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

Max Frisch

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

Max Frisch