Günter Grass Quotes

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Gregor was a real drinker..he didn't drink because he was sad..(or) cheerful. He drank because he wa...

Three times Jan had been called to the colours (the army), but each time had been deferred because o...

When Jan was called up to service a fourth time...my mother waited outside...the two of them were co...

For marriage has nothing in common with love. marriage makes for security; love makes only for suffe...

Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needle...

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defe...

Stuffed cats are able to creep more convincingly than live ones.

...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings...

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion ear...

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger tha...

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, ...

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later...

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleash...

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white fro...

Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery."SHOW YOUR TONGUE

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and whit...