Can 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.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

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

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.