Gunter 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.

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.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.