“ Hoy ya sé que todo nos espía, que nada pasa inadvertido y que aun el papal pintado de las paredes tiene mejor memoria que los hombres. Y no es el buen Dios el que lo ve todo. No, una silla de cocina,… Gunter Grass
“ Mamá sabía ser alegre. Mamá sabía ser temerosa. Mamá sabía olvidar fácilmente. Y, sin embargo tenía buena memoria. Mamá me daba con la puerta en la narices, y sin embargo, me admitía en su baño. A vec… Gunter Grass
“ Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental; Gunter Grass
“ Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way. Gunter Grass
“ Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. Gunter Grass
“ Man mag noch so viel über die beliebte Dreiecksthematik des Theaters schimpfen; zwei Personen alleine auf der Bühne, was sollen sie tun, als sich totdiskutieren oder insgeheim nach dem Dritten sehnen. Gunter Grass
“ When pestered with questions, memory is like an onion that wishes to be peeled so we can read what is laid bare letter by letter. Gunter Grass
“ I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains. Gunter Grass
“ We struck up a conversation, taking pains at first to give it an easy flow and sticking to the most frivolous topics. Did he, I asked, believe in predestination? He did. Did he believe that all men we… Gunter Grass
“ Aber wie es nun einmal ist: Im selben Maß, wie die Erwachsenen Schöpfer sein können und bei Fleiß, Ehrgeiz und einigem Glück auch sind, werden sie gleich nach der Schöpfung Geschöpfe ihrer eigenen epo… Gunter Grass
“ And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.... Gunter Grass
“ SONLULUK ÜZERİNEHer şey geçti gitti artık. Duyduk, yeter artık.Bitti ve gitti artık.Hiçbir şey dürtmüyor artık.Bir pırt bile yok artık.Dert tasa yok artıkVe yakında düzelecek Gunter Grass
“ I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed b… Gunter Grass
