Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. Gunther Grass
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. Gunther Grass
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless, and yet necessary, that’s hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. Gunter Grass