An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

- Gunter Grass

Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

- Gunter Grass

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

- Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

- Gunter Grass

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

- Gunter Grass

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

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On sorrow floats laughter.

- Gunter Grass

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

- Gunter Grass

People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everyb…

- Gunter Grass