So 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 GrassWhat makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?
Gunter GrassThere must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
Gunter GrassWhenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
Gunter Grass