"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

"Engvall and his wife are packing up their stuff to move, with a U-Haul sitting in their driveway."

"I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of…"

"Grass admits serving with Waffen-SS"

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, a…"