Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are ter…

- Heinrich Böll

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble aroun…

- Heinrich Böll

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but…

- Heinrich Böll

I need very little reality.

- Heinrich Böll

Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.

- Heinrich Böll

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

- Heinrich Böll

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

- Heinrich Böll

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

- Heinrich Böll

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

- Heinrich Böll