“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory…”

“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.”

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

“Speak for the ear and write for the memory.”

“This time during the Second World War is part of my history, part of my memory, but it is the latest part of my memory, so the memories of each human being goes much more back, it goes to the dinosaurs, even later [Kiefer means: earlier].... I think we even remember geological times. So this is one little part of our / of mine memory”

“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.”

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”

“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”