On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
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… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
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… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
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… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
