For marriage has nothing in common with love. marriage makes for security; love makes only for suffering. On the other hand, love could be so distilled, spun so fine as to implicate third and fourth p...
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the prov...
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
And so Yorick did not become a good citizen, but a Hamlet, a fool.
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
¿Cómo te llamas? - La pregunta era inevitable. Tenía que venir. Eso es característico de la conversación humana, y de su respuesta vienen una porción de obras teatrales mas o menos largas.
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.
Es cierto que, no hace mucho, pasaron en televisión un documental, pero todavía parece como si nada pudiera superar al Titanic, como si el Wilhelm Gustloff no hubiera existido nunca, como si no hubier...
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger...
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
My incessantly syllable-excreting mind
If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.
Better start running, the Black Cook’s coming! Ha! Ha! Ha!
And Oskar was kneeling at the left side-altar, trying to teach the boy Jesus how to drum, but the rascal wouldn’t drum, offered no miracle. Oskar had sworn back then and swore again outside the locked...
An entire gullible nation believed faithfully in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really the Gasman.
There is no such thing as a parttime partisan. Real partisans are partisans always and as long as they live. They put fallen governments back in power and overthrow governments that have just been put...
Three times Jan had been called to the colours (the army), but each time had been deferred because of his deplorable physical condition..when every male who could stand halfway erect was being shipped...
There is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It was so much easier to cry in company. It gave you a real sense of brotherhood i...