"Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred."

“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 and progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”

“Grass' special links to Gdansk”

“Video interview on PBS with Günter Grass by Charlie Rose”

“Survey of reactions to Grass's disclosure of his time in the Waffen-SS from the German and international press”

“Gunter Grass discusses The Tin Drum on the BBC World Service programme World Book Club”

“Concise biographical information, essays”