One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.
Gunter GrassThere must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
Gunter GrassCan it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.
Gunter GrassSo I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesiรณn. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.
Gunter Grass