153 Quotes by Gunter Grass

Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us...

If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.

...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.